Wednesday, 2 May 2018

The Properties of Different Materials

Here are some materials we can see in our classroom and what they may be used for...

Material

Student

Where we see it / Where it is used

Plastic

Myla

Plastic is used for
toys and lot of stuff like that you see plastic in factories plastic can be
very bad for the environment. You mainly find plastic in public than at home.
Plastic can be expensive in some ways and cheap in other ways. Plastic is
usually combined with other materials.

Paper

Joseph

Books,charts,posters,calendars,tissue
paper, painting and card board paper. Papers is a material you get of trees.

Brick

Layla

The wall at the
back of the room. We can use it for hanging paintings and drawings on the
wall you can also use single bricks to hold gates/doors and if you want to
you can build towers (for fun).

Concrete

Alessia

Between the brick
it's wet when you put it on and its very hard.it is grey. You put it between
bricks.

Metal

Eleanor

The out lining
of the window seal, the book stand that hold the door handle

Window curtain
openers

Cotton

Liana

Cotton is a plant
pants are made out of cotton. socks are made out of cotton shoelaces
are made out of cotton

Glass

Luke

Glass can be a window and also be a cup and all
that stuff. You can also smash the glass.

Wood

Max S

You can find wood
in lots of wood in trees. You can make pencils, houses telephone poles

Velcro

Abbey

Shoe, carpet, lunch
box, painting you can make a world map and landmark the great wall of china.
Card with Velcro! chromebook! By abbey

Ink

Harry

Inside the pen. On
Erin's fingernails. Texters on paper ( that's been coloured in) it can be
used to colour in .they come from squids it’s very useful

Chemicals

Luca

Chemicals are were
you mix two things together. And you can find it in all types of things like
food an and there are things that are really small and it is in everything
and they are so small that you can’t even see them and you are touching them
all the time!!!!!!!!!(:

Hair

Celia

ON YOUR
HEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!AND YOUR BODY!!!!!!!!!!!, on your clothes, (or on your
pillow), on hair ties if you have knots.

Leather

Alexander

Leather is skin
from cows. They use it to make jackets, car seats and couches.

Nails

Joshua

A nail is a thing
that grows at the end of your fingers and toes. Nearly all animals have
nails. You scratch, damage and grab stuff with nails.

Lead

Tilly

I can see lead on
pencils. I can use it to write and to draw

Magnets

Tara

Classrooms on
Whiteboards, also used to hang drawing paintings and mostly paper things

Foam

Tegan

Squishies, sponges,
some toys, kitchen (to clean).

Water

Bianca

We see water in our
drink bottles rivers lakes dams. You use it to keep your body hydrated. Rain
is also water

Aluminium

Max L

Back of a pencil, foil, drink cans

Wax

Sam

Candles so the fire
doesn't get out of control and Figurines because they look cool, beehives,

Rubber

Erin

Rubbers that you
rub out with. You use them to rub out your mistakes (only pencil lead though)